I honestly never thought that our son would really try to get into a comedy career.
He always was a jokester, but I didn’t personally see how he could make a living by just telling jokes to people all the time.
I thought it was nice that he was always good at making people laugh though, but it seemed best that he did that for fun and focus on some other career. He took different comedy classes and he ended up getting into stand-up comedy. He went to numerous different clubs and various venues. He said how his first few shows were a disaster, but then he was able to get a good feel of how to work with the audience. He said the worst was when a venue he went to didn’t have working air conditioning. He was sweating so hard that everybody thought he was just too nervous, but he ended up getting the people to laugh by making fun of himself. You really have to be quick on your feet in a career like that. He did it for a few years until he was burnt out and couldn’t stand telling the same jokes to people. He said that it is very stressful when trying to come up with so many jokes all the time without just doing it for fun, and that’s what I tried to tell him in the beginning. Well, it was interesting when he said he wanted a career in the HVAC industry. He said it was all those venues that he performed at with no air conditioning that made him want to be able to repair those systems for the sake of the people, especially the performers. He said nobody should have to suffer without air conditioning while trying to focus on a show.